![]() ![]() I love collecting and re-watching off-beat cinema. I had fun watching this with you guy, and I don’t regret getting the box set. “Too boring.” “Too cheesy.” “Too cheap.” Those are some of the things I can imagine people saying. Something like this I think “average” folks would turn off in a heartbeat. I don’t know what that says about my tastes. I think my brain has become a bit more elastic with regard to what it tolerates as entertaining. A lot of the dialog is delivered as though they were suffering from somnambulism but the words themselves are so overwrought and ridiculous that they act as camp for me now. Parts that I used to feel were boring I end up finding new things to enjoy (maybe because I wasn’t paying attention before?). This is a movie that I actually come back to at least once a year. I have seen worst Eddie Romero films (I’m looking at you, Beyond Atlantis). I enjoyed the spastic, throbbing c…camera (ohhhhh fooled you!) as the monster appeared, gave the film a sort of strange charm despite making me a little dizzy during these sequences. It’s shot in the Philippines so of course it stars John Ashley (too bad Jack Hill didn’t direct). The plot is barely memorable, something about scientists returning to an island where a young man’s father turned into a creature due to some experiments? Am I right? I remember Ronaldo Valdez having a fairly young attractive mom in the film. It’s silly, slow, bizarre, has some 70’s titties, and some low budget monster make up effects. Mad Doctor of Blood Island is the perfect late night movie. JimboĮven if this one didn’t grab you, I really recommend Terror Is A Man… JamieĮasily the best part of the film is the William Castle-esque opening where patrons at the theater were given some green “blood” before the film began. I’ll admit it wasn’t as bad as I was expecting from this boxset, but it isn’t something that made me interested in the other titles in the series or god forbid, actually buy the boxset. There are a few small gore effects that were nice, but in general this was kind of boring. I think it very quickly got bogged down in boring exposition, occasionally interrupted by another monster attack with the spastic zooming. It’s funny, the more I read through that list the less I remember. It starts off pretty good, between the mismatched intro and the instant nudity during the first monster attack. Cruelty to animal (actual animal sacrifice).(He played the son returning to the island, and yes I’m being sarcastic.) An incredibly riveting performance by Ronaldo Valdez.John Ashley returning to the Island, but this time playing a completely different character than in the previous Brides of Blood. ![]() A green monster wreaking havoc upon the island locals.Taking the green blood oath before the film….I know it’s been a while since we sat down to watch the 3rd entry in Severin’s Blood Island box set (SOLD OUT). Time to dig deep into the recesses of that grey matter and try to remember anything about Mad Doctor of Blood Island. In perhaps the most infamous film in the BLOOD ISLAND franchise, co-directors Eddie Romero and Gerry de Leon upped the already over-the-top nudity, violence, horny monster havoc and unmatched WTF?-ness of the first movie to deliver what Dangerous Minds hails as “one of the greatest/nastiest/goriest films of the 1960s.” AIP-leading-man-turned-producer John Ashley ( HOW TO STUFF A WILD BIKINI, THE A-TEAM) and ‘60s-starlet-turned-‘80s-porn-queen Angelique Pettyjohn ( STAR TREK, TITILLATION) star in this “horrifying nightmare of a thousand frightening dreams” – also known as GRAVE DESIRES and TOMB OF THE LIVING DEAD – now scanned in 4k from a recently discovered camera negative and presented totally uncut for the first time ever, including the legendary “Oath of Green Blood” prologue! Trashmen Rubbish Round Table Jimbo ![]()
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